Year: 2004
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Starting to shout from the…
OK, now News.com Alerts are really something visible. At least, I think that a header link on every single page on the site might be seen by a few readers. We’ll see. http://alerts.news.com/
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Taking TiVo too far
Hacking TiVo to display RSS feeds on your TV. Andrew Grumet did it. Why? A question I can’t answer.
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Downtown
Last night we ambled around the northeast quadrant of San Francisco for the Chinese New Year Treasure Hunt. An “urban sleuthing adventure,” the treasure hunt is a great excuse to get out and see the city, at ground level. Maybe ‘level’ isn’t the right word in San Francisco — we traipsed up and down various…
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RSSTop55
I’ve submitted my blog to a few of these resources, but not all. Looks like RSS is starting to gain attention in the way search-engine optimization grew a few years ago.
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Anticipation
Vin Crosbie gives us an update on his progress on the 21st-century business plan for newspaper publishing. Curious to see how it reads for those of us without print editions, too. Stay tuned, I guess.
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Movie: The Fog of War
How often do you get a first-hand take on recent history? The Fog of War, which we saw two nights ago, is a fantastic film. Robert McNamara has a story to tell and it’s fascinating to listen to a significant participant in some of the most tumultuous moments of the 1960s. I don’t kow what…
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Alert me
Psssttt… http://alerts.news.com is now open for (beta) business. Use the feedback form to suggest improvements.
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Outliner User Interfaces
I’m a casual user of Omni Outliner. I never found Radio Userland’s outliner to my liking. But I do like the organization imposed by outlines, so I found my way [via Scripting.com] to this oh-so-in-depth survey of outliner user interfaces. I need to sleep more than I need to read this right now, but I…
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All depends on your definition…
“…if nothing else, the Internet is a fearsomely effective way to lose time.” Rupert Godwin of ZDNet UK, on a WiFi-enabled train trip of over 4 hours. [via Jeff Carlson (.thought)]
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Good game, but…
Chaos here for the Super Bowl, with 8 kids running/crawling/sitting around, none older than 3-1/2 years old. So I guess it’s understandable that even with TiVo, I didn’t watch the game very closely. And the ads were disappointing… very few worthy of watching or a rewind. The Janet Jackson disrobing, however, did garner a few…